near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain

At the junction with Tennis Court Terrace. Note the correction factors below right, for fast or slow, depending on the season. Much more practical and readable than the one on the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh NT2573 : The sundial does work!, which is tiny, high up, and probably not noticed by 99% of passers-by.

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Reality Checkpoint - so called because it supposedly marks the spot, halfway across Parker's Piece, where the bubble of Cambridge University ends and the "real world" of Cambridge city begins. I believe there used to be a plaque inscribed "reality checkpoint" on the lamp-post, but that is long gone and the words are now rather crudely scratched into the paintwork.